The Biotech Coup: Microbes to Rule the World

The Biotech Coup: Microbes to Rule the World

From Podcast | ice age farmer by Ice Age Farmer, iceagefarmer.com

September 26, 2025

About this episode

The episode discusses the efforts to modify soil ecosystems with genetically engineered microbes across U.S. farmland.

There is an active effort to modify the substrate of life on our planet: to recolonize the very soil on the surface of the Earth with genetically engineered microbes. Millions of acres of U.S. farmland have already been inoculated. The soil itself is being re-formatted from a natural ecosystem into a patent-pending, CRISPR-modified, nitrogen-fixing, Roundup-spittin’ […]

People in this episode

Host: Ice Age Farmer

Topics covered

  • biotechnology
  • genetically engineered microbes
  • soil modification
  • agriculture
  • ecosystem
  • CRISPR technology

Keywords

  • biotech
  • microbes
  • soil
  • genetic engineering
  • agriculture
  • CRISPR
  • nitrogen-fixing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. farmland

Products: CRISPR, Roundup

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